“They’re always polite, they always upsell, they never take a vacation, they never show up late, there’s never a slip-and-fall, or an age, sex, or race discrimination case,” said Andrew Puzder, then chief executive of Hardee’s Food Systems Inc., a restaurant chain headquartered in Tennessee. He was talking about swapping employees for machines. Statements like these give workers reason to worry. The advent of a jobless economy raises concern because tasks……

Lucubrate Courses On-Site Some people take a course because they are looking to sharpen their expertise in a particular subject. Others take a course to broaden their knowledge about something they have limited knowledge on or know nothing about. The best way to choose a course is to ask yourself a few questions: Are you taking a course for fun or a professional reason? Do you want to attend a class……

A Kenyan mobile phone platform is offering local farmers access to a transparent marketplace that offers higher prices for their goods. Farmers who sell produce to Twiga now have access to a fair, transparent, mobile marketplace that offers higher prices for their goods. In the past, they often lost money, time, and products because sales depended on multiple layers of brokers to get their goods to markets and wholesale vendors. Each……

Multimedia-based Electronic learning has become a tool used to provide access to education for multiple segments of the population, which otherwise would have little to no access to it. While eLearning is integrated it into curricula early in the digital revolution, in many countries, it is just beginning to address the opportunities and challenges web-based learning may bring. (The article is from Lucubrate Magazine) eLearning of Today and Tomorrow eLearning is……

The concept of quality is not new in the Technical Vocational Education and Training. Training providers, trainers, administrators, and policymakers express it in different ways. Consequently, they apply various techniques and means to check whether the approved quality standards are met or not. Quality education is a strong foundation for preparing and improving quality. It is also an important competence of every nation’s human resource development. This is an asset for global……

“With 21st Century firms emphasizing the value of creativity in their employees, it’s important that teachers are allowed to value the trait in their students too – which is something that today’s curriculums often discourage” (Puccio, in the International Center for Studies in Creativity). Creativity as a subject in schools In recent years, there have been growing calls to nurture and teach creativity from an early age in schools and universities. While the……